Siemens, Microsoft team on real-time communications

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Siemens is collaborating with Microsoft to integrate telephony-based services into real-time communications applications. The German company, better known for its enterprise and carrier network equipment, is developing a software platform that adds fixed-line telephony, cellular, and wireless capabilities to new presence and collaboration-driven applications supported by Microsoft's soon-to-be-launched RTC Server 2003 software, said Bernd Kuhlin, president of the enterprise networks unit at Siemens, Thursday at a real-time communications event here co-hosted with the U.S. software company.